Daily Worker
May 28, 1925

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j zfs bis ge5GE be, 982888 a rivate the in- asants ations, lecay. ational 8 par- the In- lliance ‘inning xpress- oresen- ( chaft,” rf C., and A asants’ 16a the he lat- iet Co- with oR. ie I. P. Soviet to as- bilities der on organ- ling of \ en the L P. Cc. ~ in Full Blast!: GET IN y, itt —" 7 - Ratered as secont cans matiar September 1, mon : ‘Vol. I. No oN letter to arrive at its destination in- In Ch Outside Ch by mail, $8.00 per year. 0, by mail, $6.00 per year. THURSDAY, WV al heen, tinate unter tho Ack Meh, 110 NEW YORK EDITION an ree 192 VEN tho the United S ment does not recognize the RT iet Union, the U. S. post office dex ment does. There is no longer such @ country. as Russia. If you intend your side the land of the victorious work- ers and peasants, address it “Union of Socialist Soviet Republics.” This is according to an instruction sent out by the post office officials. If you mark the letter Russia, it will be re turned with the legend “nobody home” or “no such country on the ante-revolutionary map.” eo . ca ANY people make the mistake of thinking that ‘there is only one Soviet Republic. In fact, thére is a little ‘world full of them. Russia prop- er is the nucleus around which all the other Soviet planets revolve. Every Snce in a while a couple of re- publics apply for affiliation. It is get- ting so now that the central commit- tee fails to get excited unless half a dozen beg to come into the union at the same time. Just now two eastern countries are clamoring for admission No doubt, they will be admitted, pro- vded their credentials are in good curder. * . * é ean young school teacher who is on tria) down in Tennessee for teach- ing that man may- have at least a grinning acquaintance with the ape, is lucky that he did not break into the. front page a few hundred years ago. Instead of being on trial in a nice coo! court, house with scores of telegraph wires clicking out every word he utters, with several legal lu- tminaries volunteering to defend him without pay, (greatest of miracles) his ears would be treated to the sound of tinkling bells, while monks got ready to feed him to the faggots. OUNG Mr. Scopes may ruminate on the experience of Messers. Bruno, Copernicus, and Galileo, who had a warm time owing to their indis- cretion in making public their belief that the earth was not flat, neither did it stay in the one place, but spun around in a circle, like @ Jot of other “Fr ATR ; Sy piamets, while the sun Reg ap & 2o- sition in the koeping the Mew eA fo> thefr own .good. The ‘ehered ie formed the gentlemen above referred {5 that this teaching was contrary to, what the christian god told the He- hrew Moses on thé mountain and that cnless they récafited, their tongues would be plucked out of.their heads as a slight indication of the crgecbed father’s merciful indignation. - . . RUNO, being a conscientious ob- jector against recanting, took his seat on a bundle of sticks and was t urned into ashes, while a multitude of lu klux klan and Bryanic morons ap- plauded the sight. Galileo did not fare so badly. He loved science well, but also wisely. Perhaps he came to the conclusion. that this earth of ours would revolve around the sun any- how, no matter what the cowled mur- (Continued on page 2) 40,000 GARMENT WORKERS GETTING 20 CENTS A DAY Porto Ricans Slave for| U. S. Bosses (Special to The Daily Worker) NBW YORK, May 26—The Inter- national Ladies’ Garment Workers’ Union is interested in a bill forbidding h ‘work introduced into the Porto | senate by Senator Santiago™ competition of the non-union hon Maweatshop dress industry of the igland, which 40,000 women and hildrer, toil at an average wage of 2%) eents' daily, affects standards in the American industry. Employers of the Porto Rican work- ers live in America and have their central offices in New York, say let- ters from Iglesias. His bill would penalize factory managers with fines colnet oaate aistance, EA OEY THE >Evans Hughes, Forced Fes 30 Outposts (Special to The Dally Worker) PARIS, France, May 26. — The French troops have been forced to evacuate thirty beleaguered outposts .in the Ouergha sector, French Moroc- co, the foreign office has admitted. The Riffian natives have advanced to the Ouergha river. The French in- vaders are now concentrating their efforts on a defense of Fez, the capital and largest city of Morocco. Bobane and Tounat have been fortified, ac- cording to the communique, These two posts, control the road to Fez. Interpellations on the Morotto~in- vasion directed by the Painleve gov- ernment will be taken up in the cham- ber of deputies Wednesday, according to the present schedule. The Com- munists will condemn the entire Moroccan campaign as a war of ag- xression on behalf of the French im- oerialists. M. Caillaux, minister of finance, has presented his financial program to the chamber of deputies. Its main feature is a heavier tax on the workers, while the employers and financiers are allowed to escape the biggest share of ‘he tax burden. Caillaux declared that even after the balancing of the budget, “if France succeeds in freeing herself from the burden of reconstruction, France will still face a crushing international debt of more than 14 billion dollars.” War Against Riffs Comes High. Finance Minister Caillaux will ask parliament for an appropriation of 30,000,000 francs for the cost of the Riff war. The request will be referred to the finance committee for examina- tion before coming before the chamber of deputies. The debate on Morocco will be immediately started when the Communist Deputy Doriot will de- mand an interpellation on the Rifian} invasion. COMMENT ON TROTSKY REFUTES ATTACI ~ RUSSIAN COMMUNIST B a” Published ds PUBLISHIN dea. ani Sunday by THE DAILY WORKER O., 1113 W. Washington Blvd. Chicage, m ‘rice 3 Cents 5 BOURGEOIS CRITICS (Special to The war in the Soviet government and the LONDON, May 12—(By Mail.)—The tempest en reviewers and editors over the book by Max rnin ences existing since last year between Leon Tr ir comm out to be a tempest in a teapot and to have | Daily W <a t book- the differ- c ssar of erty has turned sal “defenders” i A Pat tag “ie Russian C SWABECK FREED FROM CHARGE OF ‘SEDITION’ BY LABOR DEFENSE AID (Special to The Daily Worker) PITTSBURGH, Pa., May 26—Arne Swabeck, district organizer of the Workers Party, who was arrested at South Brownsville yesterday on a_ charge of “sedition,” has been re- leased “for lack of evidence.” The Labor Defense Council furnished defense. POLE EXPLORER STILL MISSING ON FIFTH DAY No Word from Amund- sen, Lost Since Thursday (Special to The Dally Worker) OSLO, May 26.—“No word from Amundsen.” That was the only answer the gov- ernment could give on this the fifth day since Captain Raold Amundsen and Lieutenant Lincoln Ellsworth hopped off Spitzbergen in two aero- planes last Thursday for what was supposed to have been a sixteen hour continuous flight to the pole. Conflicting reports are reaching Oslo as to what the weather has been at the Pole. It is generally conceded, however, that snow has been falling and that the great stretch of sea and frozen land has been shrouded in fog. If there has been a recent fall of snow, it was pointed out that this make it difficult for the Amund- s "ae DENIES HEV Canard Circulsted. by U. M. W. Officials | HAMILTON, Bermuda, Denial was made today by Charles former secretary of state, that he has enlisted his services in the legal fight of the United Mine Workers against the injunctions is- sued by Judge William EB. Baker, re- straining the miners from: attempting to organize the West Virginia non- union coal fields. It was announced in Wheeling last Friday that Hughes had volunteered his services to aid the miners. When this announcement was called to Hughes’ attention, it was stated on his behalf that the report was not correct and that Hughes had no in- formation regarding the matter. The former secretary of state is still vacationing at Pomander Gate. WOOD'S TROOPS ATTACK MORO PEASANTS WHO CHARGE MISTREATMENT MANILA, May 26-—A Joint con- stabulary and navy seaplane attack was launched today under the com- mand of Major Orville Johnson against the Moro peasants in the Lake Lanao region of Mindanao ie land, according to advices reaching Manila. The Moros recently removed their children from the public schools and withdrew to their jungle fastness declaring they were being mistreat- ed by Filipino officials. Governor General Leonard Wood sent them an ultimatum tast week to return to their villages. Refusal and imprisonment for giving out home work. of the Moros to comply led to to- day’s attacks. REPORT DANISH GENERAL STRIKE WON WITH PAY RAISE FOR UNION LONDON, May 26.—According to reports from Denmark, tho not yet confirmed by labor union sources, the Danish generai transport workers’ strike is won by the weérkers, the shipping companies having signed an agreement wir.. “Se geamen and firemen granting an increase of five per cent in wages. The agreement is said to run for two years. Revolutionary marine workers were reported last week to have threat- ened a boycott on all Danish ships. Norwegian unions put it into effect. This may have contributed materially to the victory reporte. ‘rom London. However, until the report is confgmed from labor sources, thea DAILY WORKER advises a continuance of the boycott—Editor. ‘ a would AID W, VA, WINERS May a+! LONDON, May 26.—Grettir Algars- son, young explorer who hoped to race in his collapsible dirigible against Captain Roald Amundsen’s airplanes for the honor of first reaching the i} 2 * | Objejct for their Kl thru a cable- ure of | Worker thru mt at Mos saiaky from Korg has ap- : qd and his at the issued the y which you refer \ The bourgeois i it have not ip Ag 7 atone F cow. e 4 2 ar $ Ls i ys the Rus- sian _—— z “The § press, which you cite,. brably inclined towards ‘Ss ‘ cy and free trade, are cr a entions. “|, at ‘the whole Com- munist P. a! that the Soviet s ‘dictatorship of the f , Monopoly of foreign enable condi- tiona for or stion. “Our “of enlisting the active _ of the broad masses of | m workers and peasants in agement of the state is by ii @n approach to the bou Mientary system. i the bounds h is directed of carefully of the gucer, can by oh page 3) BLAST KILLS 5 COAL MINERS IN PENNSYLVANIA Lack of Ventilation by Management By PAT H. TOOHEY. (Special to The Daily Worker) EDWARDSVILLE, Pa—(By Mail) A terrific gas explosion in the Red Ash vein of the Woodward Colliery, Glen Aiden Coal Co., at Edwardeville late Friday afternoon, cost the lives of five miners and seriously injured many others. Laxity on the part of officials at the mine, by not insuring sufficent ventilation, is the probable reason. Following on the heels of the near ‘fatal explosion at Kingston, an adjoin- ing mine, last Saturday, which imperil- ed the lives of 800 miners and injured 40, the families of many workers here today suffer the results of the care- lessness of the lackeys of the coal operators of the Edwardsville mine. Gas Explosion Probable. The accident occurred last Friday afternoon as the men were about to quit work for the day. Suddenly there was a deafening report and a blinding flash and the lives of three workers were snuffed out in a moment. There were eight men working together and only one was able to make his way out to the section entrance to call for rescuers. The opinion prevails that a spark from an electric motor ignited a deep pocket of gas. One of the miners who was saved, when interviewed at the hospital, de- scribed the tragedy as the most grue- some and appalling experience that he had ever known. Making his way out of the gaseous chamber he stum- (Continued on page 8) w President of Germany Pole thru the air, may assume the | role of rescuer, it appeared today. Airship difficulties have delayed his departure from Liverpool, but he may send his ship on ahead to Spitzbergen and follow in his blimp. The young explorer, whose plan it first was to push his vessel as far north as the ice would permit, then in flate his collapsible dirigible and fly to the pole, would start his polar rescue flight from Spitzbergen, ac- cording to dispatches from Liverpool. Charge Shepherd Witness Offered to Change Evidence A charge that Robert White, miss- ing prosecution witness, demanded $5,000 from defense attorneys for re- pudiation of his statement that he had seen William D. Shepherd at Charleg C. Faiman's national university of science, was hurled into the Shep- herd-McClintock maze as the trial of Shepherd on a charge of murder swung into the closing session of its eight almost futile days this after, noon. John J. Kelly, an insurance man made the charge. Meanwhile, 15 of the 20 attorneys involved in the litigation over the will of young McClintock which left the bulk of his fortune to Shepherd, agreed to a postponement of the hear- ing until June 15. Irish Republican Chief Returning to Work at DUBLIN, May 26.— It is rumored that Eamonn de Valera, leader of the republican party of Ireland, is return, ing to active practice at his profes- sion of instructor in mathematics. He will go to work in two catholic col- leges in the vicinity of Dublin. De Valera, is very religious and.has a large family. Four Killed and the Mayor Wounded During Class Clash in Mexico MEXICO CITY, Mexico, May 26.— Four persons were killed and séveral others, including the mayor, were wounded in the city of Pachuca in a His Former Profession | —_— “snes S ag - The Ex-Kaisers Shadow Looms Behind Him. | the United Kingdom, nor for the lp its cake and have it—and let the — oN 4 If Europe is to pay its debts to Amer- BRITISH AMBASSADOR WARNS OF IMPERIALIST COLLAPSE IN TALK TO IRON AND STEEL INSTITUTE By LAURENCE TODD (Federated Press Staff Correspondent) WASHINGTON, May 26.—Sir Esme Howard, British am- bassador, has answered the chorus of optimistic predictions as to American commercial and industrial prosperity voiced in Wash- ington during the convention of the U. S. chamber of commerce by predicting the most terrible economic crisis that the modern world has yet encountered. He has told the American nation bluntly, in a speech to the Iron and Steel Institute, that unless American tariff walls are promptly torn down, so that British and other European manu- factured good may freely compete in our market, European busi- ness will go to smash. When that occurs, Britain as well as the rest of Europe will cease to pay interest on their war debts to wgertanggea tgp ‘ie papi t no in- cone Myre hme CAL ORDERS WAR DAY FOR JULY 4, 10 KEEP WORKERS FROM HOLIDAY drag down American industries relentlessly. All this has come as a shock to the tariff-drugged optimists in the capital. Just after Julius Barnes and Henry (Special to The Daily Worker.) WASHINGTON, D. C., May 26.— President Coolidge, in a letter to the war department, has indorsed an annual “defense day,” similar to Robinson and the other leaders of the chamber of commerce crowd that will zo to Brussels in June to run the in- ‘renational commerce chamber meet- ing had declared that America must have no competition from Germany, Britain serves notice that America| the war demonstration held on last cannot live within her tariff bar-| a*mistice day, for the purpose of ricade; she must permit competition| d/sseminating propaganda for a larger army and navy. Coolidge declared the date should be changed to July fourth. He made this recommendation at the request of business men who ob- Jected to giving their employes an- other holiday. or she must expect Hurope to repu- diate. Danger Ahead! “If Great Britain cannot sell her products abroad,” said Sir Esme, com- menting bitterly on the unfavorable balance of British trade with the United States, “she cannot, of course, continue to buy raw materials and manufactured goods in the United States in the same heavy quantities as had been her custom. “It is, I am sure, fully realized that Great Britain could scarcely carry on an unfavorable trade balance with the United States forever and yet pay the thirty-two odd millfon pounds per annum required to meet her indebt- edness to the United States govern- ment.... “Il am not speaking now only for, Italy and Czecho-Slovakia, highly in- dustrialized, must manufacture goods cheaply enough to wundersell their competitors, so that they can deliver a surplus in the world market and pay the United States. Competition is to be brought home to American labor, thru depressing the standards of foreign labor. Yet a republican administration dare not reduce the tariff without peril to its own political existence. So the Cool- idge afministration is going to both smash come! GARY LOCKOUT ENDS, BUILDERS RETURN TO WORK GARY, Ind., May 26—The contract- ors’ association, which had locked out three thousand Gary building trades workers a week ago, were reported to have called off the lockout and agreed that the men should return to work tomorrow morning. Agreement was reached with build- ing trades officials this afternoon. The lockout followed a strike of plumb- ers, who walked out on May 6, de- manding an increase in pay of from $12 to $13 per day. A building pro- ..Empire; bat for the world-at-large n declaring that as I see things un- pi we can shortly restore a firnt basis of confidence and credit thru- out Europe and a return to the na- itural flow. of trade—unless we can work on the principle of goods across the sea—we are heading for a worse cataclysm than that produced by the actual state of war.” The Dilemma of Imperialism. Discounting the possible bluff and political motive in this statement, 6conomists in the federal government still admit that it is essentially sound. ica, it must pay in goods, and those goods must get thru our tariff wall. But when that wall is broken, either American labor must be left to tragic- ally widedpread disemployment or it must accept a lower standard of liv- ing. A lower standard of living means less consumption of goods, which im- plies further industrial depression. What Will Labor Do? As tho to reply at once to this} been suspended because of the con- warning, the state department an-| troversy. nounced that it had sent word to : European governments jowing the | TOOTHLESS PIGKETING BILL PASSES SENATE United States for loans,made after the armistice, that America wants them to pay up in accordance with contract. That is to say, Belgium and Trial of Kluxer, Alleged Killer, is Delayed Until Aug. INDIANAPOLIS, Ind., May 26.—D. C. Stephenson, former K. K. K. lead- er in Indiana, whb with Earl Klinck and Earl Gentry: face trial for murder as a result ofthe death of Madge Oberholtzer following an attack on her may not go to'trial before August lst. The present term of the Hamilton county circuit, to-which the trial of Stephenson and his alleged accom- plices was venued from here last week, ends on Amgust 1. When the transfer was made it was stated the trial would probably not be held until October since the Hamilton court docket is crowded for the remainder of the current term. Judge Hines was said to have point- ed out that important criminal cases take precedence over all others and ‘he would probably be able to fix "es ‘efore August 1, for trial of | Steps Xlinck and Gentry if such a request . - made. Thirteen Of for Prison. INDIANAPOLI& May 26—Thirteen persons who plemied guilty recently in federal court to various charges and were given prison sentences were taken to Leavenworth, Kansas, this KARAKHAN; SOVIET AMBASSADOR, TELLS CHINESE STUDENTS THE MEANING OF WORLD SOVIET RULE ~-_e_ AND GOES T0 HOUSE (Special to The Dally Worker. SPRINGFIELD, Ill., May 26.—The senate today passed the Cuthbert- son injunction bill, 28 to 15, and sent it to the house. The measure was PEKIN, China, dress, which was made in Russian and then translated into Chinese by Prof. A. I. Ivanoff, Chinese secretary of the embassy of the Union of Soviet Republics. Karakhan addressed the students at the invitation of the college president, ovation. Reviews Soviet Policies. It was hardly possible, Karakhan declared, to cover in so short a time all the subject of the very essence and the policy of the Union, and so the speaker was compelled to confine him- self to noting in the most genera! way such peculiar features and the main lines of policy, of the Union as differentiate it from the capitalistic countries and allot to-the U. 8. 8. R. (Contmued om page ?° (Special to The Daily Worker) May 26.—Additional extracts of the speech by L. M. Karakhan, Soviet ambassador to China, College, which aroused the American legation foreign office, were made public here today. They show that Karakhan wen, after the world imperialists fists, much to the delight of the Chinese studnets, who urged that he them with complete copies of his ad-* brought forth following the house defeat of the Soderstrom anti-in- junction bill, regarded as labor's madé’ to students of Tsinghua] Prime issue in the legisiature. It to protest to the Chinese developed a mild form and speci- fies no injunction shall be Issued against strikers so assemble, picket or fully, long as they solicit peace- vith bare provide Tsao, and was given a tremendous} INJUNCTION FORBIDDING MINERS FROM TALKING, COMPARED TO THE DRED SCOTT DECISION OF 1858 WHEELING, W. Va., May 26. — Local of joining the union, and when spoken to regarding a union they must miners are forbidden to talk remain dumb, under the terms of the temporary injunction granted by Fed- eral Judge W. E. Baker to coal operators in northern West Virginia. So- called peaceful persuation methods of picketing are strictily forbidden. T. C. Townsend, counsel for the United Mine Workers, declared that the miners look upon the order as feing “as momentous as that handed down in 1858 in the Dred Scott case, which declared a Negro to be a mere piece of property.” “This new injunction,” said Townsend, “prohibits an employe of the company from talking of joining a labor union, and makes him dumb to anyone who cares to discuss unionization with him. It is in effect a thou- sand times worse than the Dred Scott decision, because it establishes an enslavement of the human mind, while the Scott decision merely placed in bondage the human body.” gram of approximately $6,000,000 had’

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> im. es Spee! 2 I “ee A = 2 - : = 4 f - a 7 ‘| nn Papebvipntingtisin hake ; 5 tine ecu ee rei ee sg 2 ee ae . > ‘ 10 0 ERECT HUGE. 4 TAH ears DARWIN TRIAL Deven to Display His Antics to Crowd DAYTON, Tenn., May 26.—With the expectation that at least 20,000 per- sons would gather here July 10, for the trial of John T. Scopes, charged with teaching evolution to his high school pupils in violation of the Ten- nessee law, plans were being discuss- ed here today to build a vast tempo- rary auditorium to handle the crowd. Bryan to Perform. Judge John T. Raulston, who will preside at the trial, believes that the hearing will last for weeks and that some of the attorneys, such as Will- jam Jennings Bryan and the leading defense lawyers, will speak for two or three days. “My suggestion,” said Judge Raul- ston today, “is that a roof be built over a large vacant lot, perhaps, the Dayton baseball field and seats be built on tiers. “At the very least, the place should seat 20,000 people. In my estimation the trial is of such interest and im- portance. I believe it fair to give both sides ample time to present their cases, also have set a date when all universities and schools will be thru so that scientists, theologians and oth- er school men will be able to act as expert witnesses.” Study of Evolution Needed, It is believed the judge’s plans will be carried out. When asked for his opinion of his indictment by the grand jury, Scopes said, “The verdict was as I had ex- pected. I am pleased with it. The question involved in the case is one that will have to be decided some time so it might as well be now. I be- lieve that the study of evolution is needed.” Scopes Counsel Also Persecuted. Scopes chief counsel, John Ran- dolph Neal of Knoxville, was dismiss- ed from the university of Tennessee two years ago for teachings which the trustees declared. were “too radical.” The attorney general had a bible at his table which he used as evidence against Scopes while the indictment was being argued. His evidence against Scopes included the textbook, “A Civic Biology,” by George William Hunter, Ph. D. of Knox College, IIli- nois, and “General Science,” by Lewis Elhuff, A. M., Yale, teacher at George Washington H. 8., Pittsburgh, which Scopes had used as textbooks. U.S, CRACKS THE LASH ON ‘POOR LITTLE BELGIUM’ Allies’ Pet Martyr Told to Come Across WASHINGTON, May 26.—The posi- tion of the United States with respect to the funding of the $470,000,000 Belgian debt has been fully explained to the Brussels government in a note transmitted thru Ambassador Phil- lips, it was announced officially at the state department today. In this note, the contents of which were dictated by Secretary of State Kellogg, Belgium was informed that this government could not consent under any circumstances to receiving German reparations payments direct to liquidate the Belgian debt, but that payments would have to be made by Belgium without any regard to where the money was obtained. _ ° o J. Bull Bellows, LONDON, May 26.—Great B has served notice on the countries that owe her money that any move on their part to pay the United States should. be accompanied by a similar move to pay Britain, it was officially amnounced in the house of commons today. Speaking for the government, Walter Guiness, treasury financial secretary, said: “In negotiations on the subject of debts due Britain we have made it clear’.that any steps taken by debtor powers to pay the United States should be accompanied by similar steps to dischrage their debt to Britain.” . > Filunkey Makes Denial. WASHINGTON, May 26.—James._ W. Gerard, former. ambassador to Ger- many, ritain | today cabled President Cool- idge from Paris, denying that he was | ~ ee oe a er ee ee = oe ee MACHINES, .SWELLING PROF! S OF A FEW OWNERS, DISPLACE. AND INCREASE oe ee ne ere ORKERS UNEMPLOYED ARMY By LELA (Federated Press ND OLDS Industrial Editor) The report of the national industrial (employers’) conference board show- ing that in March, 1925, industry was employing 20 per cent fewer workers than in June, 1920, marks the rapidity with which automatic machines are displacing human workers. With prod uction so high that the country could not absrob all the goods turned out hundreds of thousands of workers were looking for a chance to work. The Wall Street Journal reports t hat B. F. Goodrich Co., manufacturers of tires and rubber footwear, are producing approximately the same number of tires as in 1920 with a little over half as many workers—15,000 com-| pared with 25,000 in 1920. An import- ant factor in the profitable showing made by Goodrich in 1924, says the journal, was the installation of more modern machinery which resulted in. reducing overhead. Machines Ground Out Profits. The latest issue of Iron Age shows the following example of modern ma- chinery reducing the labor on various operations: A shop cutting bronze driving-box shoes replaced a 10-year old planing machine with a new 48-inch Gray maximum service planer. Operating time was cut from 30 to 20 minutes. The investment of $4,700 is earning annual net profits of 43.6 per cent. A railroad shop reduced the time for grinding crank pins from 45 to 20 minutes by an investment of $2,540 in new machinery. The annual net profit on the new investment is esti- mated at 108.3 per cent. In milk bottle factories the substi- tution of a jigged up turret lathe for an engine lathe operated by a crafts- man of the old school has reduced the time for making molds from 480 to 50 minutes. The addition isvestment of $4,793 made a net profit of 384.4 per cent tho the tools were depreciat- ed a 109 per cent a year and the ma- chine was busy only two-thirds of the time. Not Used for Service. Development of the internal gear spindle drive in connéétion with radi- al drills by the American Tool works reduced the time for boring locomo- tive side rods from 540 to 58 minutes. The time required for one roughing and two finishing cuts on the inner cam surface of a pump body was re- duced from 40 to 12 minutes by a No. 2-A Kearney & ‘Trecker Milwaukee Milling machine. Allowing 100 per cent annual depreciation the net pro- Sts of this equipment were 309.2 per, cent. These are instances of the new, industrial revolution which is produc- ing chronic unemployment. The huge.) profits from capital invested in auto- matic machines comes largely out of corresponding reductions in wage pay- ments. tenance of peak wage rates the spend- ing power of the workers is steadily reduced. Making It Hot | for the Ice Plant Bosses in New York NEW YORK, May 26.— A strike for a $9 and 8-hour day and the 6-day week is being waged by engineers of Local Union No. 56, employed in ice plants. Union men are warned that the ice of the Knickerbocker Ice Co., the Williamsburgh Ice Co., Ruber Brothers Ice and Coal Co., and the Putnam Ice and Coal Co. is scab ice. FOREIGN EXCHANGE, NEW YORK, May 26.—Great Bri- tain, pound sterling demand 4.86%; cable 4.86%. France, franc, demand 5.06; cable 6.06%. Belgium, franc, de- mand 4.9744; cable 4.98. Italy, lira, demand 3.99%; cable 3.99%. Sweden, krone, demand 26.75; cable 26.78. Nor- way, krone, demand 16.94%; cable 16.96%. Denmark, krone, demand 18.82%; cable 18.84%. Shanghai, tael, demand 75.37%; cable 75.87%. island Open for Homesteads. WASHINGTON, May 26.—Surveyed, vacant and unreserved public land on all islands in the Mississippi river above Cairo, lL, belonging to the government, will be thrown open to homestead entry, the interior depart- ment announced today. New Insurrection in Albania. LONDON, May 26.—A new insur rection has broken out in South Al- bania and there has been “flerce fight ing between government troops and the Toska tribe,” according to a Cen- tral News dispatch received here to- day, from Belgrade, Serbia. French Monarchist Killed| PARIS, May 26.—Unkniown persons shot and fatally wounded M. Berzer, treasurer of the monarchist news- one of the Americans abroad who are| paper L’Action Francaise, today. alleged to have expressed critical | views of the effort of the United States to collect war debts from!) France and other nations. Getting a DAILY WORKER sub or two, will make a better Communis? i of you. HEROIC WILLIMANTIC TEXTILE WORKERS THREATENED BY BOSS WILLIMANTIC, Conn., May 25.—Threats of the American Thread Co. that those of its 2,500 striking employes who do not return at once will lose seniority rights are met by a statement of the United Textile Workers’ Union that the strike will continue till the 10 per cent cut has been restored. Strikers are getting some financial support from the Rhode Island Tex- tile Council of unions affiliated with the United Textile Workers. ers are visiting Rhode Isiand textile towns to collect additional funds. State police detailed by the governor of Connecticut, are guarding the pliant. The fight has lasted nearly three months, Girl strik- In spite of the apparent main-| TAX PUBLICITY UPHELD BY U, S. Neweokmens - Permitted to Reveal Incomes WASHINGTON, May 26.—Thé Unit- ed States supreme court today upheld as legal the publication of income tax payments in American newspapers. This opinion was rendered by the court in a decision upholding the pub- lication of income returns in the Kan- sas City Post and reaffirmed a mo- ment later in legalizing similar pub- lications in the Baltimore Sun. The court held that newspapers may publish legally any income tax payments made public by commission- ers of international revenue by order of the 1924 revenue law. Lower courts sustained the right of the newspapers to treat as news the public report of the internal revenue commissioners, but the government held there was a distinction between making the returns open to public in- spection by tax payers and printing or publishing them in newspapers, and brought the suit to the highest court. The opinion was read by Justice Sutherland. He said congress, in making the income tax returns public had intended they should be open to all forms of publicity. This, he add- ed, included their publication by news- papers. Wealthy persons, especially those in government positions, objected to disclose their large incomes. “Congress meant te abandon its pol- icy of secrecy,” he said. SUPREME COURT! a * £ « she ae Sal pi - dy bag | ge ica rf He a 5 4 : p Pa cs é : ’ ’ ae . | AUGUSTA, Maine, May 26.—Harry ed in connection with fiss Aida Hayward at was spirited away from county jail at Portland brought to the Kennebec county jail here. * * The authorities ': itted that they , to lynch Kirby way policeman in wh guard the at The Priconar Team ag one jail, to another was accomplished with great caution and with special squads of state highway - Imen covering the Portland-Augusta, road on motor- cycles. ait Plans then were begun to arraign Kirby in court om charges of murder and arson. Warrants charge him not only with the slaying of Miss Hay- ward, but the shooting of her aunt, Mrs. Emma M, Towns and the firing of the Hayward cottage at Lake Ma- ranocook. fi ‘Baltic — ea From Capitalist States By J. LOUIS ENGDAHL. = - TODAY; the Baltic beggar nations, cap in hand at the beck and call of allied imperialism, do not find as rich pick-. ings among the great capitalist states, as they did in the_ days immediately following the war. Most of them, Latvia, Lithuania,’ Esthonia, Finland—torn from the Union of Soviet Republics by the Versailles peace, their economic life shattered as a result—cannot even get a hand-out from the House of Morgan. American workers might study with interest the state- ment made by Charles . four months’ visit. Latvia, under Morgan-French alters, member of the Painters’ Union, just returned from Latvia, where he has guider a dance, is anti-Bolshevik. Here is the picture Walters paints: * * . * a ‘ f “The once booming Industries of Latvia have gone to pot. Little remains of the great rubber and machinery plants that once were outstanding features of Riga, and the lively harbor activities of former times have waned. Unemployment is rife, wages low, where work is to be had, and the cost of living high.” Morgan, the banker, agrees with the ts bab Walters, the worker. Morgan knows that the city of ga has de- faulted on her pre-war debts, and that Latvia's bankers and landiords can’t repay the loans secured to combat workers’ and peasants’ rule. he money lenders, of London and New York, are there- fore turning their backs on Latvia. Morgan finds safer fields of investment in the Argentine, rich with natural resources, where he is now floating a $45,000,000 loan. There is no use turning to France, that tried to build of the Baltic states a “cordon sanitaire” against the Soviet Union. Right now imperialist France is too busy spending what money she can get her hands on fighting the Riffs in Africa; at the same.time not being allowed to forget that her great American creditors, the U. S. government and Wall Street’s international bankers are loudly demanding payment of the war debts. . Economic sinibeasiaiabi seizes the Baltic states just as it has taken hold of Austria, incubator offspring of the treaty of Versailles, and other nations artificially carved out of Europe, with no thought as to whether they will live or starve. They are mostly starving in the best Latvian style. While the Soviet Union is extending its railroads, re- building tts harbors, reconstructing all industry, develop- ing its ~ iperihseng and working out an extensive program of electrification, resulting in the rejuvenation of the whole nation under Bolshevik rule; the reports from Lithuania for instance say that a special commission has been appointed to find out what’s wrong with its capitalist rule. try is going to seed, with no direct railwa The coun- connection between Memel and Kovno, inadequate harbor facilities, lack of sufficient warehouses, and other necessities absolutely demanded by the economic life of the nation. But capitalist Lithuania, like all her Baltic neighbors, stagnates with its working and farming masses under the heel of its terror rule. j . = The Baltic states must and will become a part of the Soviet Union. The workers.and peasants of these small nations, being closest to the Workers’ Republic, appreciate most the benefits to be achieved under liberatin Notice the Turcomans in Persia under the Soviet rule. ritish. They are jealous of the freedom, of the new life enjoyed by the Turcomans under the Soviets. Over there, in far Asia, these Persian Turcomans are struggling to enlist under the Soviet banner. They will succeed. * . It was for raising this cry, of the march toward Com- munism knocking at their very doors, among the workers of Poland, that the Polish reaction jailed and sought the life of Stanislav Lanzutsky. Capitalism’s blockade against Com- munism—the small nations alon the Soviet Union—is crumbliing. the western frontier of ommunism comes march- ing on in the wake of the Proletarian Dictatorship. ASWESEEIT -: By T. J. O'Flaherty (Continued from page 1) mers of monkdom muttered over their crackers and booze. “ae oe ISTORY does not record an exo- dus of lawyers to defend Bruno, Galileo and Copernicus against the ec- clesiastical witch hunters of that time. The lawyers might share the fate of the clients, and furthermore, the art of publicity was only in its infancy. If the Tennessee school teacher at- tempted to put across Leninism in- stead of Darwinism, it is not very like ly that Dudley Field Malone, who spe- cializes in the matrimonial tangles of the upper classes and Clarence Dar- row who snaps his pet suspenders and drenches emotional juries with tears of eloquence in prosperous murder cases, would be now on their way to Dayton, Tennessee, giving their serv- ices free in his defense. Such is evo- luttion. * ¢ se O sooner had Wall Street’s battle- ships finished the maneuvers in the Pacific, maneuvers directed at Japan, than another offensive of Ame rican imperialism was organized with a base in the same region. The new game will be called “peace maneu- vers” and the object is, obviously, to cover up the belligerent aims of the recent war games with a pacific smoke screen. It is announced that, the nationals of seven countries will PERSIAN TURCOMANS’ REVOLT IS REACHING LARGE DIMENSIONS, WITH SOVIET AS ULTIMATE GOAL LONDON, May 26.—Dispaches from Persia state that the uprising of the Persian Turcomans against the British rule is reaching large dimensions. The Persian Turcomans aim to establish their own Soviet government and to unite with the Soviet Union, the dispatches state, ' confer at Honolulu for two weeks be- ginning July 1. * © . HERE will be representatives there from Canada, Australia, New Zea- land, Japan, China, the United States, and the Philippine Islands. With the possible exception of China, Japan is completely isolated in this conference, And the chairman of the American group is Dr. Ray Lyman Wilbur, presi- dent of Leland University, Jr., and brother of the secretary of the United States navy. Among those backing the conspiracy are Rockefeller, the oil mogul; Barney Baruch, the gambler and subsidizer of the Williamstown Institute and practically every faker who has been used by the American, capitalists for years to bluff the world into believing that Wall Street had only pacific intentions. This outfit will bear watching. ere ie ee ee rs es ry By ping ear aE “BART. MEET | Chaniber of | Commerce versus Foster By Paul Lukachie CLEVELAND, Ohio, May 26.—(By Mail).—The Ladies Auxiliary of the Brotherhood of Railway Trainmen held their meeting May 21-25 while the B. of R. T. was in convention. The chamber of commerce thought that it would make a hit with the B. of R. T. by lolly-popping the ladies’ auxiliary. So after making a long speech a chamber of commerce guy presented the president, Clara Brad- ley, with a large and expensive fan. Then there was an enormous box of chocolates brought in by two men. The box weighed about 75 pounds and each lady was presented with a piece of candy. It should have been taffy to match the flattering act- ion of the slick bourgeoisie. Finally, the chamber of commerce presented the auxiliary with a large flag (not a red flag, however) and got them to march around the room with the flag. Then they got the ladies to singing “My Country "Tis of Thee.” But not everyone stood up during the singing. While a sympathizer here was dis- tributing handbills advertizing the Foster’s meeting of railroaders, he got to an engine in the yards but was told someone had beaten him to it and the engine crew already had a handbill. While talking, along came a rail- road shopman, rushing thru the yards with still more leaflets distributing to those who had not yet received them. All were interested and showed the discontent of the railroad men with Bill Lee’s treachery and class collabo- ration policy. AVERAGE WAGE 1S LOWER THAN GOVT. MINIMUM Garment Workers Need Demanded Raise NEW YORK, May 26.— Wages in the cloak industry are still far below the sums needed to support a family of five, say the International Ladies’ Garment Workers in their final brief- ed arguments before the Smith media- tion commission which is sitting on the demand for wage increases and other improvements in conditions. The average cloak worker earns $1,760 annually and the amount esti- mated by the bureau of municipal re- search for a family of five is $2,066 a year, leaving a deficit of $306. The department of labor estimate of a living standard is $2,088; the labor bureau’s minimum for unskilled work- ers’ costs is $2,275 and for skilled workers $2,889. The glaring difference between the $1,760 paid the average cloak worker and these figures disposes of employ- ers’ arguments that demands for small increases are excessive. Graft Trial of Congressman Delayed WASHINGTON, D. C., May 26.— Congressman W. Langley, of Ken- tucky, under indictment for conspir- acy to violate the Volstead act, was granted a separate trial today by the district of Columbia supreme court. Philadelphia Workers Party Outing Saturday, May 30, 1925 at BURHOLME PARK. Admission Free. SPORTS REFRESHMENTS Directions—-Take Car 50, stop at Cott- man St., walk west 3 blocks, you will meet the crowd. FOR RENT—IN NEW YORK 8-Room Apartment, completely fur- nished until October at $30.00 per month. One block East of Central Park. Opportunity for reliable com- rades. Apply: Room 33, 108 East 14th Street. GET A SUB AND GIV= ONE] OS ee ee er rrr rrr rrr rr rr -~ OL titi ) BOSTON! BOSTON! ; ATTEND THE ! ‘ GRAND - at UNITY CAMP, Sports interfere. a of all organizations, W. P. A., Local Boston % SATURDAY, MAY 30 (Decoration Day) Finnish Brass Band of 35 Pieces. Large dancing floor and refreshment hall under roof. Rain will not Grounds open at noon. Admission 50 Cents. DIRECTION—Take Elevated to Everett; Car to Malden Square. From there take Bus to picnic grounds. PICNIC SAUGUS, MASS. Refreshments i lll OL — == -— =“ es : GAMES

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Bi - =, NS WAR MPLOYED ) t pe k ,” 4 : “* 5 5 F . , 4 : Bie «. : - a ous Sneer at Workers (Special to The Daily Worker) LONDON,—(By Mail) —Churchill’s jibe at the unemployed as “learning to for the dole” is more than r of its supporters and begin the offensive on the dole at the same tim “they start the offensive on the The period from 1919 on, has @ tendency on the part of the ed, especially those in receipt *benefit at all, to take the side Of'titly section of workers on strike. ©» attitude on the part of m d is of course hotly re- sented th® capitalists. Only fear of agitation has prevented the wiping out of the dols hitherto, but now that the labor@overnment has prepared the way forthe conservative re-action- aries there ds going to be a tightening of the screw on the unemployed. This can be affected without any new legis- lation, the mandate of the minister of labor enables him to erase practically every person in receipt of what is known a8 uncovenanted benefit, that is benefit over and above what the de- ductions from wages while working entitle a recipient to draw. Churchill's fudgeteering prepares the way for dividing the workers along the line of covenanted and un- covenanted benefit receivers, and bases his new insurance proposals on a solvent unemployment fund, which can be secured when the unemployed drawing benefit number not more than 800,000. Removed Thousands The ca ust press has been how!l- ing for a c use of the powers of the at, labor to cut down the numbers om the dole, and Sir S. H. Maitland @i¢ iminister in question, has removed eléyen to twelve thousand from the register of those entitled to draw benefit. Solvency is to be secured atthe expense of the most poverty stricken workers. These in turn it is d to use to break all the eres tat are bound to occur in resistance to the new offensive being prepared | inst miners, engineers, railway ets, etc. Fortunately the unemploye@are rousing themselves a little, sdemonstrations are be- coming moré’ common, and there is talk of another hunger march on Lon- don, to ,the»conservative gov- ernment to Keep its hands off the dole. —R. Stewart. .© ; a A Foster Speaks this Evening on British +. Movement The fact that the combined forces of American. capitalism and labor bureaucracy, is alarmed over the prospect of the visit of British labor union leaders who have moved to the left and afe actively championing world trade union unity, is sufficient indication of the importance of the left wing the British unions. Tonight, Wednesday, May 27, Wil- liam Z. Foster, who attended the con- ference of the British minority left wing while on a recent trip to Europe, will speak on the Minority Movement in the British Unions at Northwest Hall, corner of North and Western avenues at 8 o'clock. This is the regular monthly meeting of the T. U. E. L. in Chicago, and other interest- ing reports on union matters are also up. There is no admission charged ee VIENNA, May 26— Members of the Austrian nationalist organiza- tion, which Is a part of the “Rhein- land” branch of the Rossbach Ger- man fascieti, have been arrested oharged with participating in the riot at Moediing. Fourteen wounded .are In the hospitals as a result of the clash between the fascists and the workers. Workers turned out by the thou- sands at the funeral of one of the workera who was killed in the fight- ing. Most of them carried revolvers in their hands. CAL AIDS WHITE TERROR AGAINST ESTHONIAN REDS Workers Party Paper Barred from Reval NEW YORK, May 26—The “Uus Iim,” the Esthonian organ of the Workers (Communist) Party has re- ceived the following communication from the United States post office:. “This office is advised by the postal administration of Esthonia thru the Office of the second postmaster gen- eral that copies of the “Uus Iim” ed- ited by the American Esthonian So- ciety, this city, is prohibited by the sentence of the court of justice for a period of two years and that in execu- tion of said sentence and in conform- ity with Article 18, section 4 of the Postal Convention of Madrid of 1920, all numbers of the weekly mentioned, upon arriving in Ethonia will be con- fiscated. “Please take due notice of the in- formation furnished regarding the prohibition against copies of your pub- lication addressed for delivery in Esthonia. “Respectfully yours, “J. J. Kiely, Postmaster.” This communication proves con- clusively that the United States gov- ernment is acting in alliance with the hangman government of Esthonia in order to keep the workers of Esth- onia ignorant of the Communist Party’s program. The United States government believes that, in this way, it will keep down the revolution in Esthonia. The Esthonian government has a good white guard agent in the Esthon- ian ambassador, Professor Antonius Piip, who is publishing a white guard paper in this country and doing everything in his power to caluminate the Communist Party and to distort the intentions of the Communists. Afraid of Truth. This persecution of the Commun- ist press will not keep the Commun- ist press from operating. The perse cution in itself proves that the gov- ernment of Esthonia and of the United States are afraid to let the workers know the truth of the system under which they live and suffer. This joint persecution is in line with the alliance of all capitalist governments against the Communist parties, just as they are conducting a joint cam- paign against Soviet Russian and the Communist International. The “Uus Iim” will continue its work, despite this decision. Spanish Balloon Sinks. PARIS, May 26.—The Spanish ob- servation balloon Jupiter, was seen to sink early today during a severe storm which carried her out to sea, according to a Barcelona despatch to Le Journal. The entire crew are be- and all workers are invited to come. a lieved to have drowned. ———— CARMEN DEMAND | BETTER WORKING CONDITIONS, PAY Corporation Would Re- duce Their Wages The Chicago street car men will not vote on the wage controversy between the Chicago Surface Lines company and the union, at their meeting in Carmen’s Hall Monday night, William Quinlan, president of the union, told the DAILY WORKER. The contract between the union and the utilities corporation expires on May 30, and the union has demanded a five-cent an hour increase in wages. The Sur- face Lines made a counterproposal that the wages be reduced five cents an hour in the new contract. The union meets on Monday night to con- sider the new contract. That a new agreement will be reach- ed without permitting the street car workers to vote to fight for their de- mands, which include better condi- tions as well as the wage increase, was indicated by Quinlan, who told the DAILY WORKER, “President Blair of the Chicago Surface Lines will be in town Wednesday, and I ex- pect him to telephone me. I will not take the matter to the men Monday night for a vote but will discuss the agreement with Blair.” The 18,000 employes of the com- pany: voted three weeks ago for the increase in wages. They also asked that night runs be closed at six o’clock in the morning and for the inaugura- tion of an insurance plan to be paid for by the company. Quinlan declared a strike would not be called, “Until the men have had an opportunity to vote on the pro- posal of the company.” Mellon Would Repeal Tax Publicity Law to Shield Wealthy (Special to The Daily Worker.) WASHINGTON, May 26.—Adminis- tration officials indicated the treasury department would ask congress to re- peal the publicity clause following the decision of the U. S Supreme Court upholding the law. This would be in line with the known opposition of Secretary of the Treasury Melion, who himself was hurt by the publicity as it revealed his huge income, as head of the aluminum trust. The treasury department which along with Coolidge, is opposed to the law announced that the 1924 income tax payments will be released for pub- lication some time between August 1 and September 15. Officials explained that returns both for the calendar year of 1924 and for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1925, will be included in the payments published. It was charged that undue delay had been permitted in the hope that the sup- reme court would hold the law un- constitutional. It is harder for the millionaires to Hodge income tax payments then pub- licity is allowed. To Investigate “Heretics.” COLUMBUS, Ohio, May 26—Com- plete investigation of all charges against the New York presbytery in- volving the Fosdick case and alleged licensing of ministers failing to af- firm certain tenets was recommended to the presbyterian general assembly by the committee on blils and over- tures today. Report will be made to the assembly next year. Get a sub for the DAILY WORKER from your sbopmate and you will make another mem. ber for your branch. GREEK WORKERS OF YORKVILLE, 0,,. GIVE $14 T0 GROUCH CASE YORKVILLE, Ohlo, May 26-—The Greek workers of Yorkville, at @ meeting here to protest against the imprisonment of Walter Trumbull and Paul Crouch, U. S. soldiers sta- tloned at Hawali, donated $14.00 for the defense of the prisoners, and forwarded the money direct to the Schofield Barracks guard house. Crouch was sentenced to 40 years, but his sentenced was later cut to three. Trumbull’s sentence was ra duced from 26 to 2 years. The sok diers were arrested solely because they are Communists. Rebels Continue Fight in Albania Against Government LONDON, May 26—Dispatches from Tirana, Albania, confirm continued fighting today in Southern Albania be- tween insurrectionists in the TosKa tribe and government troops, accord- ing to Belgrade dispatches to the Oen- tral News. Bosses Manage to Get Amalgamation; So Why \ Don’t Labor Unions NEW YORK, May 26—Three boss coat associations have consolidated into the International Joint Board of Coat Contractors of Greater New York. Eight-hour Day Buried. GENEVA, May 26.—Speaking of the Washington convention of six years ago which provided for an eight-hour day as a “workers’ victory,” M. Jou- haux, French delegate to the league of nations international labor conference, urged ratifiecation of the convention. The convention has had not the least effect in securing the eight-hour day for the workers. ; Close Up Bucketshop. Twelve employes of the Jack H. Davis & Co., alleged bucketshop at 332 S. LaSalle St., closed by federal authorities who charge that down- state small town investors have lost $250,000 thru the firm, have been subpoenaed for questioning about the crash by Federal Judge Wilkerson. A lawyer, Harry Z. Perel, also has been subpoenaed to explain what he knows about the operations of the firm. Arthur S. Gerson, manager of Davig & Co., meanwhile fs being held by United States Marshal Anderson, who questioned him in an effort to learn the identity of the real heads of the firm. Letterheads gave a frank Thomas as president and an August W. Pearson as vice-president of the company. WORLD WAR VETERANS DEMAND THAT FRENCH TROOPS LEAVE AFRICA MINNEAPOLIS, May 26—~ “We ask all organizations te join with us in requesting Pres. Coolidge to call upon France to withdraw the troops and permit the natives of Morocco to rule their own country,” asserts Emil E. Hopkins, national president, world war veterans. “Reparations payments to France by Germany under the Dawes plan are being used for the French army in bringing the free natives of Mo- . rocco under subjection. Germany lie paying the bills for the terrible , French outrages in Morocco.” | TRANSLATED BY IDA DALLES This book of Fairy Tales is the first ever issued in the coun- try to really fill the urgent need for children’s stories from a working class view-point. The author, Herminia Zur Miihlen, ts recognized in Ger- many as a writer of children’s stories of the highest order— stories that are distinct from any ever written and carrying a promise of the new proletarian literature of the future. The trandlation by Ida Dailes brings out in bold relief the beauty of,these stories. This American publication is also enriched by four, full page, beautiful drawings and cover designs by Lydia Gibson—in addition to many smaller drawings from the original Ger- man edition. Size 9x12 inches, with large clear type. 75 CENTS (with Duroflex Cover) $1.25 Cloth Bound ‘ if THE DAILY WORKER PUBLISHING CO. 1113 W. WASHINGTON BLVD. ‘G~ CHICAGO, ILL. i - :

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‘SHE OYGAN ‘Ps Pe k Big Hall for Soviet _ Russia Meet a he _(Bpesta! to The Dally Worker) «the pictures showing scenes in Russia | __and’ Germany staged in any part of the country was given here last week when the Jocal opera house was pack- ed with an audience that enjoyed every minnte of the show, The local members of the Workers Party, mostly South Slavs, are pleased with themselves. It was their hard work that made the affair the success that it was. Tho few in numbers they covered the town with posters and leaflets, and sold enough tickets before the doors were opened to guar- antee all expenses. The manager of the local opera house expressed sur- prise that a few radicals could pull off such an organizing feat. Comrade McCarthy addressed the audience In behalf of Irish Famine Re- lief and a collection amounting to $48.00 was taken up for the relief of the Irish peasants in the famine re- gion. Last Sunday a meoting was held in the Labor Temple, with T. J. O’Flaher- ty and Comrade Zinnich, of the South Slavic Federation, as speakers. Comrade Matt Shooks, organizer of the South Slavic branch of the Work- ers Party in Sheboygan, presided. Comrade Shooks is a live wire and he and the other comrades tn Sheboy- gan deserve credit for the splendid work they are doing despite the ustia! Obstacles that confront pioneers en- gaged in the task of laying the basis for a revolutionary organization. Annual Picnic of Y. W. L. at Beyer’s Grove on June 14 The committee on the arrangements for the coming Young Workers’ League picnic to be held at the Beyer’s Grove, California Ave. and Irving Park Blvd. has made all pre- liminary arrangements for the best at- tended and most interesting gather- ing of young workers and juniors ever held in the city of Chicago. The committees for various tasks at the picnic were elected. Commit- tees for entertainment were especially iad > tive and inventive comrades. Besides the regular entertainments at the picnic such as the various games and athletics, there will be a short musical program with mass singing, a few solos and a couple of good speakers. The Juniors who are helping the League to put the picnic across, are instructed by the League to prepare an elaborate program and no_ doubt they will do that with their usual en- ergy and enthusiasm. The grove is easily accessible from every part of the city. Tickets in ad- vance are 35 cents, at the door 50 cents. They can be secured at either the national or local office of the League, 1113 W. Washington Blvd., or ' 19 8. Lincoln St. and at every branch meeting of the Party or League and from every member. Young workers at the factories where the League is carrying on cam- Paigns will be especially invited to this picnic by special pluggers printed for that purpose. ek. . a a eee a Calles Acts : as Strikebreaker. MEXICO CITY, May 26.—President Calles has promised American ambas- sador James Sheffield that he will pro- tect the property of the United States mill and sugar cane owners here. He is driving Mexicans off the land, Calles said, and is settling labor troubles for the American Smelting and Refining company. | WHITEMAN SPEAKS ON NEGRO LABOR CONGRESS AT CLEVELAND MEETING By NELL*AMTER (Special to The Daily Worker) CLEVELAND, O., May 26.—The local American Negro Labor Con- gress committee held a meeting here at Beulah church, East 3ist St. and Cedar Ave., at which Lovett Fort-Whiteman was the principal speaker. He had an enthusiastic audience to hear about the congress. Whiteman proved himeelf an ex- cellent speaker, as the response of the audience showed. A collection was taken by the chairman, Brother Whitlow, representative of the Ne- gro members of the Building Labor- ers’ Union. The secretary-treasurer of the Hod Carriers’ Union, as well as two members of the Workers (Communist) Party spoke, with dis- cussion by various people in the audience. \ tm} ee ee eee | must be done fn conformity with the | Statement of the nial Executive |change in the objective situation in Committee. Discussion in the Enlarged Executive | tee of the Communist International American Question }ed that opposition had developed to- picked out to consist of the most ac-| WING tp the circulation of many false rumors in the party relative to the stand of Comrade Zinoviey re garding the construction of the cen- tral executive committees of our party at the next party convention; the C. EB. C. finds it necessary to isst the following statement of fact as to what actually transpired in this connection, After the recent party delegation’ had been In Moscow for over two months, and after the issues involv- ed had been thoroly discussed in the American commission and the deci- sion was about to be made, the repre- sentatives of the C. E. C. (majority), Comrades Foster and Cannon, had a conference with Comrade Zinoviey in which the latter, upon his own Initia- tive, proposed that the present ma- jority of the C. E. C. should be given a two-thirds majority in the Incoming central executive committee. In ac- cordance with this proposition, the fol- lowing clause was contained in the first draft of the decision on the Ame- rican question: “The central committee of the Workers Party will retain its present composition until the party conference is held and the new central commit- tee is to be so elected at the party conference that the Foster group ob- tains a majority within it, and the Ruthenberg group is represented pro- portionately at least by one-third. The two leading comrades, Foster and Ru- thenberg, are to be re-elected.” Two or three days after this draft appeared, Oomrades Foster and Can- non had another conference with Com- rade Zinoviev, in which the latter stat- wards his proposal based upon consti- tutional grounds. He stated that this oppqsition maintained that under the statutes of the Comintern each party had the right to select its own central executive committee and that only mm serious crises, where there is a 1evo- lutionary situation or where the party is in great danger, is the Comintern justified in organizing the central exe- cutive committee. The claim was made that no such critical situation existed in America and that, there- fore, the direct organization of the C. E. C. by the Comintern was inadvis- able. Comrade Zinoviev stated that he recognized the force of the objec- tion that there was no critical situa- tion in America, and would, therefore, withdraw his proposal. He agreed to appear before the plenum of the en- larged executive and to state that he had made this proposal upon his own initiative and to give the reason for its withdrawal, which he did. Following are the speeches In the enlarged executive committee of the C. |. when the report of the American commission was presented. OMRADE KUUSINEN gave a re- port on the work in the American commission: The American commission, with the American comrades, unanimously de- cided today to recommend that the draft resolution which are submitting here be adopted. The question upon which the conflict arose in the Amer- ican party was whether the party should fight in the immediate future for a labor party or not. As you know, the majority of the central committee of the American party opposed it, and the minority supported it. In the opin- ion of the commission, the majority based its policy in this respect too much on superficial temporary pheno- mena. The minority is absolutely right in its confidence in the vitaty of the labor party movement. But the question has also another side. In speaking of the labor party, it was evident that one side has an ntirely different conception of the labor party from the other. One side thought of the coming labor party ina much narrower sense than it ought. A revolutionary, or at least semi-revo- lutionary labor party will probably al- ways remain a pious wish. A revolu- tionary labor party is so long an im- possibility, as long as the Workers Party of America will become this labor party. But it is possible that a labor party will rise earlier than that. HAT purpose can a labor party serve for us? It will become a field of activity for our revolutionary work among the masses, in order to win them over gradually to the revo- lutionary standpoint. But it will also be a school for the working masses themselves, where they will get the experience of the necessity of class organization, and one other very im- portant experience—the experience of the treacherous role of the reformists, who will in all probability take the lead in this movement. We have al- ready had a clear symptom of this during the last few weeks. The so- cialist party under the leadership of Altogether the meeting was a suc- cess. Seventeen copies of the Young Worker were sold. The Foster meet- ing for Sunday at the Labor Temple Was announced, and the meeting was adjourned at 10:30 o’cicok. This meeting marks the begin- ning of what appears to be a prom- ising career of the American Negro Labor Congress Committee, Local Cleveland | of “The the well-known Mr. Hillguit, was com- pelled recently to oppose the LaFol- ‘lette party on the question of the labor 'party. The reformists could not form- ‘ally abandon their leading role in the | labor organizations. Otherwise they would be politically dead. The commission proposed that the former slogan “Farmer Labor Party” must be changed from now on to that America, The agricultural crisis was temporarily overcome by capitalism in America, although it was accomplished by the expropriation of the property of a large mass of small farmers.+At present there is no basis for a joint party of the workers and small farm- ers. That naturally does not mean that the Communists must not con- tinue their work among the small farmers with the greatest energy. working class is approaching great mass struggles. On the whole, however, it must be said that at present the situation is not yet pregnant with revolution. American capitalism seems to be standing at the height of fits power. At present it has overcome the situation created by the superfluity of capital by ex- porting capital to impoverished Du- rope. The Dawes affair seems a step toward world monopoly to American finance capital This great power is, however, deceitful. When one is stand- ing on top and can stay there, it is a very advantageous position. But when he comes to a slant and begins to slide, then the higher he stands, the worse it is for him. The great task of the American cemrades is to help finance capital to slide down. In the resolution the commission stated that both the leading groups have made mistakes in their platform; the party is, however, well on the roac to Bolshevization, but it is still much too weak. The party comrades of both groups must together do every- thing in their power to strengthen the party. One other important task: the party has a right wing led by a comrade nameii Lore, who may not be alto- gether unknown to you, and of whom there can be no doubt that he is an opportunist. The commission declares in its resolution that there is no room for such an opportunist as Lore in the central committee of the party. The commission did not express an opin- ion on what the right place is for him, that has been left to the congress of the Workers Party to decide. We are convinted that all the comrades of the céentrdl committee of the party, ir- respéctive of the group to which they belong, will deal with this question without ambiguity at the party con- gress. (Applause). CQMRAD® ZINOVIEV said: Comrades, I should like to make the following statement. on the Amer- ican question: In the course of the negotiations | myself moved that the composition of the future central committees of the American party be already intimated here in Moscow. I proposed that the present majority retain a majority in the future central committee, but that the present minority be assured re- presentation proportional to its strength, to wit, not under one-third. During the negoitations I then with- drew my motion as inexpedient. We are of the Opinion that after having formulated a unified political platform we may leave it to the party itself to elect its central committee at the next party convention as it sees fit. This is in no way intended to express a pre- ference for one of the two wings of the party. I must emphasize that thd Foster majority did not absolutely insist upon having the composition of the central committee fixed here. That means that my motion was made neither at the initiative of the major- ity nor of the minority, but on my own initiative. OU know, comrades, that the com- mission has put only one condi- tion, that the opposition, that is the social-democratic group headed by Lore, be not represented in the cen- tral committee. We believe that both wings, Foster's as well as Ruthenberg’s, by all means belong in the central committee. Of course it is not easy for both wings to obtain a majority. Nevertheless, each maintains that it will gain the majority. The future will show which of the two has deceived itself. We can only wish both wings the best of good luck. Let them try to win a victory on the basis of the platform of the Communist International, however, only on the basis of the platform here formulated. The wish was also expressed that both tendencies unite in fighting the social democratic tendency of Lore. If one wing should endeavour to de feat the other thru collaboration with Lore that would be-disloyalty to the Communist International. After elim- inating the social democratic oppo- sition a free-for-all struggle is per- missible, of course in a comradely form within the organization and only up to the party convention. After the convention peace and tranquility must prevail so that an American question should nof again require the attention of the Comintern for a long time to come. REPRESENTATIVE of the Ameri- can majority, Comrade Foster, said: On behalf of the majority, | would like to state that we fully accept the resolution of the Américan commis- sion. We believe it provides a solu- tion of all the disputed points in re- lation to the labor party question Labor Party” only. That which have divided the party for the J onergetically the right deviations THE et ‘erga last two years and that-it lays down the oorrect line for From the beginning ot the guntro- | versy which first arose in 1923 over the question of the of the | the | ‘ mission has rnc : of view and early a, We are right in emphasizing it!’ ° After the presidential election, | the majority of the 0. B. ©, fh its deter- agitation for the party in the present was a mistake which ig and which will be correctell in accord- ance with the resolution. On the basis of this decision the majority will strive to uaite our party to end the factional strife that has weakened our party and to eradicate present in the Workers (Communist) Party. REPRESENTATIVE of the Ameri- can minority, Comrade Ruthen- berg, said: The minority of the American party appealed to the Communist Interna- tional on the American, question, .be- cause it considered thatethere was at stake an issue which dnmvyolved the whole question: of thé future of the Communist movement im the United States, the question of déveloping the class consciousness of American working class, We see that in recent Ware a new tendency had arisen which expressed itself in the movement for the labor party. We believed that it was neces- sary for our party to the fore- front in this struggle and. so to move the backward m _America a step forward. We that to cut loose from this moyement would be, to take from. our party ane, he best ave- nue of its future devel In the decision that Mohn pro- posed here we have the Communist International's approval of this funda- mental viewpoint that the Communist Party in America must ain at the head of and take the lead, in. develop- ing this movement; and consequently we can give our full approval to the thesis. In the inner party question also we besey a decision to whichywe can give our full approval. One of the big dif- ferences in our party was.the question of the struggle against the social- democratic Lore faction 4n.our party. We insisted upon an uneompromising struggle to eradicate this tendency and this has been tea in the thesis. Thus in the inner wiele situation we believe that the thesis follows the correct line for the future good of the Communist Party in the United States. As to the question of the next cen- tral executive committee, we accept Comrade Zinoviev’s statement, that he wishes both groups good luck, and 1 can assure you we shall take full ad- vantage to establish a leadership of a good Communist character in the Workers Party of America. + The draft resolution of the Ameri- can commission was wnanimously adopted. Charges Copé WIith-Graft. SPRINGFIELD, Ill., May 26—Highly incensed ‘over his arrest and subse- quent fine in Chicago last week for parking his automobile over the time limit, Representative Harry Weisbrod of Chicago, introduced a resolution in the house today condemning Captain Patrick ie of the Chicago police force, as a “bully,” resenting his verb- al attack on the legislator, and ask. ing for the appointment of a commit- tee of five members to investigat feb ee FOr em 3 3 i - . - - ° eer - > ” MARCH 08 m2] NEW YORK, May 26-—Many workers in New York City recall. the horror that befell the 146 working gitls who lost their lives in the Triangle Waist factory fire it New York City in March 1911, The Triangle Waist factory was a sweat shop. Fire safeguards were very inadequate. The factory was a real fire trap. It is not to the interest of the capitalist class who employ labor to provide safe working places. The interest of the bosses 1s to eiftract as miuch profit as possible from the labor b id SUNDAY. MAY 31\Te Dr. A. Moskalik % DENTIST” 8. W. Corner 7th and Mifflin Sts. PHILADELPHIA, PA. : of the workers with as little expense as they can get away with. This means low wages and bad‘ working conditions for the workers. Girle Were Unorganized. The only way to secure safe work- ing shops is thru the organized ef- fort of the workers themselves. girls working in the Triangle Waist factory were not organized, therefore no pressure was brought upon these employers to install safety fire es- capes. When in March, 1911, fire broke out in the Triangle Waist» fac- tory, 146 girls were trapped in the burning building and actually burned to cinders. or. The capitalist class in New York City wants no mention made of this horrible disaster. But the workers must commemorate the death of our sisters of the working class who per- ished in the fire because of the greedy profit seeking interests of the employ- ing class. We must demonstrate to the workers in New York City what fate may befall them if they fail to The | ‘agnt for the organization. of thely shops and factories. Women to Demonstrate on May .31.. in Brooklyn, N. Y., to the graves of our sisters, the victims of the Triangle Waist factory fire. Speakers will ad- dress the gathering in thé cemetery. This demonstration is not a wo- men’s affair. It concerns the men workers as well. Mén workers are also urged to participate and bring along their women folks and children. The Y. W. L. and Junior section will also participate. NEW YORK, May 26—Votaries of the muse, fighting revolutionaries, class conscious workers, all lovers of a “fling,” a unique and, delightful way of spending a week-end, fit for their purse, will go to the First Grand Spring Round-Trip Excursion into the Catskills up the Hudson river, which has -been arranged by the Novy Mir for Decoration-Day week-end. The steamer will leave New York Friday, May 29, 8 p. m. and will re- turn Sunday, midnight. Innumerable ways of enjoyment have been planned. On the steamer there will be dancing, concert, enter- tainment. At the camp, which will be reached Saturday morning, there will be rowing, fishing and more en- tertainment. Everyone is acquainted with the gorgeous scenery along the Hudson by daylight but few have experienced the keen delight in witnessing the sun, adorning herself in all her glory, flirt- ing with the hills before she retires for the night and then the moon, playing peek-a-boo with these hills. Can anything be more sweet to the ear than the sounds of revolutionary songs being carried along for miles and miles along the quiet Hudson? Those who wish to experience these delights—and many more, should ob- tain their tickets as°son as possible, as the number is limited, at the of- fice of the Novy Mir, 30 Union Square. They cost $4.25 and-include sleeping accommodations on the boat. 5 A MIDNIGHT TRIP ON THE HUDSON AND CAMPING IS NOVY MIR’S NOVEL WEEK END ENTERTAIMENT PLAN 25 Boy Pupils Are Overcome in School Classroom by Foul Air Twenty-five boy pupils were over- come in the school auditorium of the Blaine elementary public school at Southport and Grace street yesterday morning during a singing exercise. A few recovered after firemen were rushed to the scene, but most of the children had to be taken to the north side hospital for treatment. Panic- stricken parents rushed to the school as soon as news of the disaster spread in the neighborhood. The boys, it was learned, had just come in from a gymnasium session in the playground. They had hardly be- gun singing when the first boy drop- ped to» the floor. Bad ventilation and the presence of noxious gas were responsible for the asphyxiation, it was claimed by the firemen. ' Rikedag Votes for Reduced Army. STOCKHOLM, May 26.—Recom- mendations for reducing the cost of national defense has been adopted by the rikédag (lower house). They pro- vide fér reduction of the army from six corps to four, a decrease in the train- ing period and postponement of any definite naval building program. This will bring the cost of all Sweden's defenses to 96,000,000 kroner as com- pared with 181,600,000 in the 1924 plan. To Use Their Pedale. That cannot be said for thoes who will be in Altenheim Grove Saturday. They use their heads so much that some of them are getting flat. For a change they will be giver the opportunity to use their feet as well as their heads. To come to a climax, the occasion will be the famous hardy annual T. U. E. L. picnic. Address: Grove. How to get there: Madison street car and transfer to suburban car to end of line, or take Forest Park “L”” to end of line. Half a dollar gets you inside the gate. What you spend on the inside is your own business, tho we will help you make up your mind. Some Brain Food. Fun will be what highbrow writers call the “theme” of the picnic. A-few people go to picnics to learn some- thing. They will not be ignored, Wil- liam Z. Foster is scheduled to speak on his recent experience in Russia. William F. Dunne will act as. master of ceremonies. The writer does not know of any- body who is not coming to the picnic next Saturday. He knows of hundreds who are. They are young and old, male and female. To miss next Saturday's picnic is to miss a chance to enjoy yourslef and to contribute to the treasury of the Trade Union Educational League, which, you may have already guessed, is the reason for the picnic, : Railroad Declares Dividend. Directors of the Chicago & North.— western Railway Co., at a meeting here today declared a semi-annual dividend of 2 per cent on common stock and 2% per cent on preferred payable. June 30 on stock of record June 5. 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I Twelve Demands n d: ; Given in Detail | (By Rosta.) SHANGHAI, China, April 28 ee Mail.)—Over ten thousand textile workers have gone on strike at the Tsingtao mills owned by the Japanese | tors of the Shanghai mills, | demands put forth; by the strik- system of retaining fines from. the wages; fourth, the niédical treatment of injuries at the cost df ithe employ- ers; the payment.of wages during ill- heseand-the paymenti,ofa year’s salary to the bereaved family in case of @eath; fifth, freé wWigings at the works; sixth, tiffin interval of one hour, instead of half an hour; seventh, the handing over,pf the, money re ceived from fines to children’s schools thru the trade. unions; eight, 8-hour working day for laborers under six- teen years of age; ninth,, two days’ leave... every month ,for ..working women; tenth, the wages are to be paid, for the strike period; eleventh, no dismissals for participation in the strike; twelfth, the acceptance of the workers’ demands by the Nagai works should. be binding on the other mills. The strikers have issued an appeal to the public, in which they lay down all their grievances. Irish Republicans in Cleveland Raise F unds for Relief CLEVELAND, May 26.—Tom Kil- bane, 20356 West 60th street, is now puffing at a genuine Irish briar pipe from the well-known Kapp and Peter- son's, Dublin, as a résult of an affair held here on May 17, for Trish famine relief, under the ‘auspices of the James Connolly club’ of Cleveland. The club, which is affliated with the International ‘Workers, Aid, is planning to hold a dance in the near future. Since its otgatization, the club has been very active and has already sent funds to the Ifish fam- ine sufferers thru the Trish Workers’ and Peasants’ Famine ‘Relief, at 19 South Lincoln street, Chicago. The local office is at 5927 Euclid avenue. Wants European Labor Imported to° Replace Negroes Gone North . ‘ NEW YORK, 26.— Colonel Har- vie Johnson, secretary of the Ameri- can Cotton Association, virtually ad- mits that labor conditions in factory and farm are worst in his Dixieland than in the north, where he says, that the million southerner#-who have emi- grated to the north, largely to north- ern factories, in the last four years, will never return. Jolinsén wants the immigration laws changed so that Eu- In the coast guard. naturatizatidn under the laws. : WAaMINeTON, May 26.—The United States supreme court today can- cottéa*the ttiateralization: papers granted by the federal district court of Mas- sachu@etts:e/1921 to Hidemitsu Toyoto, a sommes who served nine years The supreme court held Japanese were not entitled to citizenship by ‘WhiteG third, the abelition ofthe } SOVIET-CHINESE PARLEY DELAYED BY DIFFERENCES — 1% eo’ 2%ae gliénezae ies tussian anded RE 2268 ff 2: es ee a “3a: PEKING.-(By,,,Majl. pp Rosta correspondent oe giaghs the reports having appear e. press to the effect that the .Sp Seams confer- ence would be, ema a ay, are in- cerrect. As a matt er ct, the date of the inauguration, “th tt ateretice has not been fixed. yet, the ‘parties to it having not reached any agreement so far. : It. appears that previous. to the con- ference there are to be settled some questions connected with, the execu- tion of the agrement concluded be- tween the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics and China. om May 31, 1924. Thus, it is supposed that a series of questions, such as the dis- bandment of white guards enlisted in the Chinese army, the handing over of the property of the Russian orthodox church mission, and a ‘number of others, will be settled before the con- ference, so as thus to clear the way for the successful labors of the latter. It has been learned, in particular, that a serious discussion was taken up between the Chinese delegates and the Soviet embassy of the question of the railway, which has been Jeased to the Japanese in Manchuria a and which is aimed economically ated he in- . aw ~”~ Manchurian railway, and, strategical- ly, against. the safety . of. _ union and China. It is suggested that. the issue will also be taken up. absieee Moscow and Tokio. Taian Palmer Raid Viction =: Deported After oe Year Court Process roa 9ROBTg PITTSBURGH, Pa., May. 26.-“Péter Stankovitch, South Slav, has béen of- dered deported. This action marks the end of year fight in the courts. conducts A mainly by. the Labor Defenag, Coyncil against the deportation of., vitch. The cage. had. hung. fire for years and appeared to be drapped, when suddenly, Stankovitch. wag, or- dered deported. ..He is bound,., as a prisoner, to Jugo-Slavia wherg,he will be turned over to the reactionary Patchitch government there, far them to do with him as they see fit. The extreme persecution that has.. been meted out to Communists in Jugo- Slavia makes it not at all improbable that Stankovitch’s journey to his home country amounts to his going to jail. Stankovitch was one of the victims of the infamous Palmer “Red ene Led ropean labor can be imported for the southern cotton industry. Raids” of 1920. He leavés a wife and family in this country. AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAS bd “International Socialist Review” for 1910, 11, 12, 13, 14 and 1915. Published by Kerr & Co. Bound Volumes or Complete Sets of WANTED: | | Aah hia it shih db bAAAAAAAAAAASF Address LEWIS, c. o. Labor Defense Council, 19. So. 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- _ ~~ = Steamer will leave Pier 43 FRIDAY EVE., MAY and will arrive back Sunday Midnight. from Christopher St. Ferry, 29th, 8 P. M. SHARP CONCERTS—DANCING-“CAMPING—-FISHING Excellent and wholesome food prepared by our own chefs will be served at reasonable prices. NO OVERCROWDI " allowed, and, in order to insure comfort, iexets have been limited to 350 persons. TICKETS $4.25 EACH (including round trip, berth, camp, lodging, auto rides and rowing) Tickets obtained at. NOVY MIR, 30 Union Square, New York Come and spend ea ‘Day with us in the moon-light, sailing up he Hudson River. REGISTER EARLY to get Yavhent berths and best camp accomodations First ae A Ah A Ah A A AL A A A A A A AAP” ll tai _—— lel — : cow ew ee ee ee eee terests of the Chinese F : ‘ Tail-| 697 Raiiway Carmen, S444, Wentworth 1340 Rail Carmen, shian ve way and in favor of those « 0 Se es aeiiwey FRe. © Sere Nt: Stanko-( ROCHESTER COURT UPHOLDS BLL WHCH “OUTLAWS K. K. K. ROCHESTER, N. Y., May 26.—By _a@ vote of four to one, the justices of the appellate ¢ourt held the legis- lature had the power to compel se- cret societies to file membership lists and took a direct hit at the ku klux klan as a group which “‘ex- ercises activities tending to the pre- judice and intimidation of sundry classes of citizens.” The decision upheld the-Walker law, which out- laws the klan. Your Union Meeting | Fourth Wednesday, May 27, 1925. | Name of Local and Place No. of Meeting. Blacksmiths’ District Council, 119 S. Throop St. 1 Boller Makers Monroe and Racine. 10 Carpenters, 13 Garfield Bivd. 21 > Western and Lexing- 5443 S. Romane Ave. Carpenters, 505 'S. Stat 1784 Carpenters, 1638 N. Halsted St. H. Fehling, Rec. Sec’y., 2253 Grace St. Irving 7597. Carpenters, 6414 &. Halsted St. Carpenters, 1581 Maple Ave., Evan- ston, Iii 181 Coopers, 8901 Escanaba Ave. 3 Hod Carriers, 1352 W. Division St. 562 Hod Carriers, 810 W. Harrison St. 4 pte ook § Workers, 19 W. Adams St. Garment Workers, 328 W Van Buren Stree . Marine Cooks, 7 Clark St. 126 Machinists, 113 S. Ashisna Bivd. 524 Machinists, 735 N. Cicero Ave. 375 Maintenance of Way, 426 W. 63rd St. 54 Painters, Sherman & Main Ste., Evanston, til. 6 Plasterers, 910 W. St. Railway Carmen Dist. “Counell, 5445 S. Ashland Ave. Ro. Carpenters, os Bw m. 11 Roof 777 W. Adams St. Sheet "Metal, 714 W. Harrieén st. Shest Metal, 5324 S. Halsted St. Veamhete, 175 W. Washington St. Vegensore (Meat), 220 S. Ashland d 769 oo (Bone), 6959 S. Haisted 3046 Tuckpointers, 810 W. Harrison St. Tunnel and Subway Workers, 914 W. Harrison St. Note—Uniless otherwise stated ali meetings are at 8 p. m.) SOVIET UNION SENDS | TWO MILLION GOLD POUNDS TO ENGLAND LONDON, May 26.—Gold valued at £2,000,000 sterling, hag just ar rived in London from Leningrad. The metal was consigned by the Soviet State Bank and deposited in the Bank of England.to the credit of Areos, Ltd., the All-Russian Co operative Society’s trading organ- ization. Don’t Think Much of U.T.W.of McMahonin Maynard, Mass., Mill By ARMAS WEST. MAYNARD, Mass., May 25.—There is only one industry in this town, the Assabet Mill, owned by American Woolen Co. The Assabet employs three thousand-one hundred opera- tives—nearly half of Maynard’s popu- lation. The factory produces only wool, Unionism prevails only among the spinners and weavers, but their mem- bership is small and select. They all are associated with the United Textile Workers. Last night there was a mass meet- ing for the purpose of organizing all mill workers. President McMahon and Organizer T. Reagan of U.T.W., spoke to a “mass” of 50 to 60 workers of Local 771. McMahon stressed upon the “economy” of the employers and reviewed the struggles of textile work- ers since 1919. Organizer Reagan spoke about the American Woolen Co.’s reorganization plan, which might reduce wages and repeal the 48-hour law in Massachusetts. I asked several workers why didn’t they join the union? And all answered that the U. T. W. in Maynard is a company union subject to the power of the bosses. All have been former members. All that the U. T. W. is doing in Maynard is collecting dues from members ($1.00) a month. One worker remembers when dur- ing the war several liberty bonds were bought with the dues money. These workers all say that radicals are refused membership in the union ‘Itribute to a considerable increase of ty WORKER yr OF 5 AIM OF vA . BUSINESS NEW TORE, May 26.— The New York correspondent of the Rosta News Agency reports that an influ- ential, tho not,official, institution rep- resenting American commercial cir- cles has. made a thoro study of the commercial treaties existing between the Union of Soviet Socialist Repub- lics and other countries, with a view to determ the eventual condi- tions and ities of a Soviet-Am- erican commerce. The pees anime concluded be- d the United States ic document, which compared with the reement Possible. It is tease: while the investi- gators did comp to the conclusion that the monopolyipf foreign trade, as es- tablished imsfh@. Union of Soviet Re- publics, presents. obstacles to the con- clusion of y between the U. S. S. R. and. the S. A. on the usual moriger commercial treaties Muntries, yet an agree- » possible provided’ tates decides to make a " ., from the traditional ment is he the United . The instit ion in cnnaticnn has also been going, > the recent Soviet- Japanese t t from the viewpoint of its consequences for American com- merce; As a result, it has been rec- ognized that the Japanese forestry concessions in Siberia may, in the future, unfayorably affect the export of paper and wood pulp from the Unit- ed States to Japan. Japan Gets Soviet Oil. - The fact that this treaty will con- Japan’s oil and coal stocks is also causing some anxiety in the States. All the above considerations, eman- ating as théy do from informal sourc- es, certainiy’reflect the ever-growing interest forefie’'U. S. S. R. among the American busihess circles. gue Gets Dalene ers Released in Michoacan, Mexico , May 26.—The Liga Pro-Luchradores Persi- Eatite in effecting the release” of sif workers who were jailed in the fate of Michoacan fol- lowing upon “a May Day’ demonstra- tion. The onstfation was directed chiefly Américan ‘imperialist methods in Vigorous pro other worke for the quick ¥éle The “‘killini “of nine peons in the state of Puébld has aroused consider- able consternation in working class circles here’'?Phe reports as to the circumstances, of the killings are somewhat ed and details are lacking, but “there is little doubt that the murders @fe the direct result of the growing’ power of peon organiza- tions in Puebla! The league for work- ers’ defense” has sent its represent- ative Monz6énh to Puebla to investigate the case. “" Vio ts Rail Merger Hearing Proceeds. WASHINGTON, May 26.—A flareup between Henry W. Anderson, counsel for a group of dissenting Chesapeake and Ohio stockholders, and W. A. Colston, chief Meutenant of the Van Sweringen brothers, marked the re- sumption of hearings today before the interstate commerce commission on the Van Sweringen plan to unify five large railroad systems. Anderson accused the Van Swerin- gens of “trying their case in the newspapers.” e state of” Michoacan. ts from the “liga” and or} ‘anizations account 6. Subscribe for’ the WORKER! DAILY and their idea of a strong union is one ones. ship to spinners. Here’s hoping for militant organiza- | tion in local 771. everybody Calis Bryan “Religious Brawler.” NEW YORK, May 26. — Sixteen charges were made against William J. Bryan i an attack delivered from the pulpit of Kings Highway cnogregation- al church here by Rev. Dr. James 8. Williamgon. Bryan was characterized as a “re us brawler,” who perverts the of Jesus.” ) industrial union and not several petty | The spinners refuse member- | unless they are | : SO eee poanteivale BUILDERS ~ AT WORK NEW YORK SWINGS INTO ACTION Both Group and Individual Challenges Hurled With a drive to, build “Our Daily” the New York builders are sure to push their local right among the leaders In the Sub Campaign before the week is over. About 4,000 copies are being distributed door-to-door, at factory gates and In the shops every day this week In a drive to secure subscriptions for the DAILY WORKER to build the Communist movement. Four thou- aand copies distributed every day where workers live and work are sure to bring @ flood of subs. Already they are beginning to come in. Enclosed with a batch of subs City Agent Comrade L. E. Katterfield sends this challenge placed in his hands: : oe ° am NEW YORK WILLIAMSBURG ENGLISH BRANCH— ATTENTION! The Downtown English Branch sends in 15 subs and challenges the Williamsburg English to match this WITHIN ONE WEEK. Will you comrades accept this challenge? An- swer thru this column P. D. O. COMRADE MALKIN—COMRADE ZAM MADE GOOD! COMRADE KRUMBEIN—ON THE JOB! Comrade Zam who was challenged by Cémrade Malkin, came thru on a challenge and has secured a new sub. With it he picks out a real builder and aims a challenge at Com- rade Krumbein, District Organizer to get another. WHEN WILL WE GET THIS SUB COMRADE KRUM- BEIN? And be sure to pick out another builder to challenge when you send it in. IN THE SECOND ANNUAL SUB CAMPAIGN WATCH THE BUILDERS GROW! These are the loyal workers building the Communist movement with subscriptions to build “Our Daily” sent in Saturday and Monday May 23 and 25: NEW YORK, N. Y¥Y.—Katterfeld (11); Leo Kimmel (3); Fred Cammer (2); M. Malkin (2); Joe Newman (2); Ethel Shor; Chas. Mitchell; Robt..Ashman; Jack Stachel; Rose Schwartz; Geza Szepesi; Croll; Herbert Zam; Geo,.Siskind; Morris Gottlieb; Edward Schwartz; Jimmie Higgins. CINCINNATI, O—L. A. Weeks. GALVESTON TEXAS—Anonymous (4). CHESTER, PA.—S. Batt (2). WORCESTER, Mass.—Eteehpain (2). MINNEAPOLIS, MINN.—Dan W. Stevens (4). ST. YOUIS, MO.—H. Stoltz. WASHINGTON, D. C.—S, .R.Peariman. MILWAUKEE, WIS.—Cora Meyer. SAN FRANCISCO, (Bay District) CALIF.—Kathieen Fleming; P. B. Cowdery (13). PITTSBURGH, PA.—F. H: Merrick. ROCKFORD, ILL.—M. Lundquist (2). BENTLEYVILLE, PA.—N. Stakish. FORDS, N. J— James Szepesy. BOSTON, MASS.—Lettish branch (7); (2); Robert Zelms (3). DETROIT, MICH.—N. Stoyanoff. CHICAGO, ILL.—Walter Schuth. PITTSBURGH, KAN.—J..E. Snyder (5). LOS ANGELES, CALIF.—S8. Globerman, WASHINGTON, D. C.—S. R. Peariman. BRONX, N. Y.—Leon Corduner. OMAHA, NEB.—David Coutts. HANNA, WYO.—Fred Williams. TOLEDO, O.—F. Davey. UTICA, N. YN. J. Bouzan. PHILADELPHIA, PA.—Lena Rosenberg; Liza Leve (3). HILTON, N. J.—John Lambert. BALTIMORE, MD.—Philip Chatzky. YOUNGSTOWN O.—W. Metcalfe (2). CLEVELAND, 0O.—John W. Langley; E. Holzman, J. A. Hamilton. 4 Fay I. Gukowsky; J. Sagermaster; E. Pultur 7 DEPT. OF LABOR STARTS MOVE TO DEPORT FINNS Follows Advice of White Guard Informers DULUTH, Minn., May 26. — Antt Johannes Rintala is held in $1,000 bail, set in a hearing before Immigra- tion Inspector O. 8S. Remington after his arrest in Two Harbors on the charge of illegal entry. Rintala was accompanying his 10-year old datgh- ter on a tour of the country. Signe, the daughter, is an accomplished singer and has been in concert in various parts of the United States. This arrest comes on, the heels of the prosecution of Mrs. Sanna Kan- nasta, who aside from being charged with Mal-entry, is also held under the war-time passport act. Mrs. Kan- nasto, who like Rintala, is Finnish, was arrested on the information of a white guard Finnish informer. ', Work of Stoolpigeon. It is revealed that Rintala, in con- junction with his daughter’s con- certs, has been showing stereoptican pictures of the Finnish civil war, ten per cent of the proceeds of the enter- tainments going to the aid of Finnish class-war ofphans. There is no doubt but that Rintala’s arrest was also made on the advice of a stoolpigeon. This persecution of Finnish radicals in this section of the country where the Finnish population is quite heavy, is the direct outgrowth of a struggle in both the United States and Can- ada between the “red” Finns who sup- port the working class movement in Finland and the “white” Finns whose sympathies are with the reactionary Finnish government. It is plain that the United States department of la- bor, thru its local immigration an- thorities, is giving unqualified support to the “white” Finnish faction in its diligence in following the advice of informers in making these two ar. rests. It is very possible that the arrests of Mrs. Kagnasto and Rintala are the beginnings of a concerted drive against radical Finnish residents in Northern Minnesota. Cincinnati Clothing Firms Renew Contract with the Amalgamated NEW YORK, May 26.—The Amalga- mated Clothing Workers Union an- nounces that the three largest cloth- ing firms in Cincinnati have renewed agreements with the union. The firms fare the American Art Co., the A. Block Co. and the Globe Trading Co. The strike of 100 workers in Los Angeles is reported as progressing’ satisfact- orily. Children’s Jacket Workers in New York have refused the demand of employers for a 10 percent cut. — = Charges of Jury Fixing Thrown at Shepherd Defense A canvass of all veniremen who were called for service in the trial of William D. Shepherd for the alleged “germ murder” of William Nelson McClintock in an effort to learn “who has been approached and talked to re- garding jury service in this case,” was ordered by State’s Attorney Robert E. Crowe. The action was’taken after 18 more veeniremen had been examined and rejected, preceeding which, interroga- tories were filed ordering James Cal- lan, ward politician, to show cause why he should not be cited for con- tempt of court for his alleged attempt to influence Philip J. Barry, a pros- pective juror. | Pressure On Debtor Natlons WASHINGTON, D. 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Editors Business Manager SP» 290 Advertising rates on application. “Safety First!” The story from Reliance, Wyoming, published yesterday on the Trade Union Educational League page, may be dry reading for work- ers who are not miners, but it is certainly damning proof of the con- spiracy, time after time resulting in the deaths of coal miners, be- tween the state government, its agents, the mine inspectors and the coal capitalists. One item contained in the report of the miners’ committee but mot mentioned in the report of the state inspector is enough: We believe that safety requires the delivery of caps and ' powder to the various working places, instead of men carry- ing both powder and caps at the time when all men are en- tering the mine. Hundreds of fatal accidents have bene caused by this practice alone altho the reports of coroner’s juries are usually unable to give the actual reason for the very good reason that the evidence is en- tirely destroyed. ——— “When a man reaches the age of 50, he inevitably becomes an opportenist,” and from this he drew the céficlusion that a leader who has passéd'the age of 50 should be placed in the’ archives, more or less. We sométimes agreed with him, but de- mandéd that he make an exception,— with regard to himself. It may turn out: however, that numerous other ex- ceptions: will have to be made. Let us hop# so, at any rate. Those who have! become so ossified that they re- main! impervious to the new currents of thé new epoch, should go away. But the Problem of the party leadership can “6fily be solved by the organic combiiation of the representatives of two generations ‘for the purposes of leading ‘the party. ———o can place against large forces of the | : . C AG , ; A | ‘A sp silt Dy eL_\ * \ Ne | 5 \\\\ \ . qreres ~oer* AMERICAN IMPERIALISM BEHOLDS ITS DOOM Seren, Te at = ae : a Benes ae et Ee. se ee absolutely inventor of this theory argues that the selec- tion of new central committees is de- termined by the mood or the arbitrary Will of the members of the Presidium of the executive committee of the Co- mintern. Of course it is not so. The more profound. They reach back to the moment of the birth of the Gom- munist International. The fact that the Third International emerged from the womb of the Second International had its consequences. This evi- dent in the struggle which many com- rades have to conduct against the go- cial-democratic survivals of their ow past. Let those who preach to ué the necessity of sparing the old leaders, distorts the poSition. The keep their sermons for their own in- struction. To charge us with intoler- ance towards the old leaders is entire- ly baseless. If we~deserve any re- proach at all, it is not for fri rsweeping away comrades of the mould. Simffarly unfair and totally un- deserved is the charge that we have transferred the leadership to those who are ready to sign their nameg to everything that is put before them. © Consequently, we have nothing to fear at all from presénting the ques- tion of the leading cadres of the miove- ment to the masses of the workers. Comrade Lenin never feared to raise this question openly. At the io time, he taught us that without’ éa- dres of leaders deliberately aiming at a definite goal, full of determination and discipline, there can be no révolu- tionary proletarian party. For de- cades, right to 1917, in all the bran- ches of the Second International, Le- nin was charged with having dictator- ial propensities. This was one of the favorite charges brought against Le nin by the bourgeoisie and a consider. able section of the Second Interna: tional. All of them howled at him: You are a dictator. You wish to have obedient subjects; you wish to place your will above the will of the organ- ization. That was at a time when Lenin was not yet recognized as the leader of the international proletariat. The social-democrats joined in these howls. We however, Know, that with- out centralized disciplined leadership, the revolutionary workers party could not have been formed. N our day of retarded revolutionary development, this postulate is more applicable than ever before, and therefore comrades, we do not hesi- tate for a moment to raise this ques- tion. The E, C. C. I. hag never ap- proached the question in this manner: you have sinned, consequently your ‘sin will be visited upon you and your children to the seventh generation. We say: if you are an opportunist, we will fight you until you admit your error. Frequently, it is made to ap- pear that we wish to humble a com- rade and demand that he beg forgive- ness, to cry: “mea culpa.” We have never demanded anything of the kind. In this article, Kreibich asks: what sort of a habit is this to demand the ‘self-humiliation of a man who has committed an error? This implied re- buke is sheer nonsense. In the world party of the proletarian revolution there can be no talk of self-humilia- tion. Nobody has ever presented the question in this manner. In our theses on bolshevizing the parties, we have a passage which em- phasizes the necessity for internal party democracy. We need this in- ternal party democracy, not for op- portunists, not for those who demand “freedom of criticism” in the interests of the bourgeoisie. We wil} fight such people as avowed enemies. We de- mand freedom of criticism for those comrades who tread the same path with us in the quest for revofutionary truth. An article which I wrote on the youth, in Czecho-Slovakia, if I am not mistaken, was regarded by some as a new theory. We are charged with desiring to pbtain leaders only and exclusively from the Young Commun- ist International, We give the Young Communist League all the credit it deserves. It has rendered great sery- ice, and in some places has helped to bolshevize our parties. Under normal conditions, the party trains the youth, and not vice-versa. The party should help the youth to become Bolshevistic. Let those who think that the BD. C. C. L. desires to “select” the leaders for the party from thé Young Com- munist International, calm their fears. (To be continued) New Quake Shakes Japanese Islands TOKIO, May 26.—A strong éarth- quake shook the Tajima district of southeastern Nippon Island this morn- ing, including the towns of Toyo-Oka and Kinosaka, which were all but de- stroyed by last Saturday's terrific shock. Several damaged buildings were tumbled down, alarming the pop- ulace, but no loss of life was reported. +. . * Vertical Quake in Japan. LONDON, May 26.—A new vertical earthquake in the Hyogo prefecture occurred today and shook down many buildings which survived the earth- quake in the same district Saturday, according to an evening news dispatch from Tokio today. Get a sub for the DAILY WORKER from your shopmate and you will make another mem- ber for your branch ~